For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture - the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed

Few bonds in our lives are as psychologically and emotionally significant as the ones we share with our sisters and brothers, although little has been written about this formative relationship. In this first-of-its-kind book, psychotherapist Jeanne Safer

If you sense that your child is seriously troubled, you may feel bewildered, helpless, ineffective. How can you stop your child from throwing away his or her life? How can you avoid thinking that you've failed as a parent? In

Here, collected for the first time, 19 writers describe their eating disorders from the distance of recovery, exposing as never before the anorexic's self-enclosed world. Taking up issues including depression, genetics, sexuality, sports, religion

Drawing from questions her patients ask most, the author teaches how to deal with the issues you car about. With compassion, wisdom and enlightening ideas, this book encourages you to be true to yourself, develop social interests and discover the

The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David

World renowned researcher Dr. Barbara Fredrickson gives you the lab-tested tools necessary to create a healthier, more vibrant, and flourishing life through a process she calls the upward spiral.

Do you think it's possible to truly enjoy your job? No matter what it is or where you are? Timothy Gallwey does, and in this groundbreaking book he tells you how to overcome the inner obstacles that sabotage your efforts

Michel Foucault has achieved something truly creative in this book on the history of madness during the so-called classical age: the end of the sixteenth and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The classic of child therapy. Dibs will not talk. He will not play. He has locked himself in a very special prison. And he is alone. This is the true story of how he learned to reach out for the

Prof Rajagopalan Member, Governing Board of International Ocean Institute, Malta visited Birla Institute of Technology and Science - BITS Pilani on 17 November 2009 to deliver a talk on Global Environmental Crisis. The talk was sponsored buy Oxford University Press

The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship for advanced research based on the Alan Lomax Collection.The Lomax Collection is a major collection of ethnographic field audio recordings, motion

Over 700 university academics and administrators from around 45 countries will gather at the fifth QS Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education Conference (www.qsapple.org) in Kuala Lumpur next week to hear international experts from 25 countries speak on globalisation and

A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth.

Hackers broke into the servers at a prominent climate-research center and leaked years worth of e-mail messages onto the Web, some of which argue that scientists need to "hide the decline" in data about temperatures.

Scientists circulated beams of protons in the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time after a year of repairs caused by a spectacular failure after the $10 billion machine was heavily damaged by a simple electrical fault.

McGyver could do just about anything with his Swiss Army knife. The laptop is the digital equivalent of that versatile tool, and today they hardly cost much more.

In its Pittsburgh research laboratory, Intel is developing chips that can harness human brain waves to operate computers, television sets and cell phones

It seems no one is willing to help, so Iran says it will send a communications satellite into orbit on its own.

It may be the mother lode of all bad timing